At the August 2024 council meeting we resolved to:
🙋♀️ Adopt a Prevention of Violence Against Women Action Plan, a first for Ku-ring-gai.
🏡 Put on public exhibition for at least 28 days an updated Planning Agreement Policy. Planning Agreements are a legal agreement between a developer and a planning authority where planning controls are varied in order to achieve a public benefit. Some examples may be to dedicate land for public recreation, environmental protection, road widening, or an extra road while allowing the developer to build an extra storey. It’s usually a win-win for both public benefit and future housing.
🌇 Modify and then support two Planning Proposals for a retirement village (110 homes) and residential development (181 homes) in Turramurra, to be sent to the Department of Planning for ‘Gateway Determination’. The Department of Planning will review the planning proposal and conditions before it goes to Public Exhibition and Assessment.
🚌 Write to the Minister for Transport and the NSW Premier to accelerate the delivery of rapid bus services along Mona Vale Road.
🐶 Explore setting up a small dog park at the site of the former Gordon Bowling Club site.
🗒️ Provide terms to council’s lawyers for the court-ordered mediation with the State Government re: housing, noting that this would not have been necessary had the Planning Minister responded to any of my earlier requests for good-faith collaboration in the last ten months.
There were other items as well, which you can read about in the draft minutes. (I will update with a link when this becomes available.)
